. . . it's the humidity. It was a sauna this morning in New Orleans. Even now, at 2:15 p.m., it's 89F with 60% relative humidity, which bumps the heat index up to 97F. It was a fairly typical Wednesday morning ride out on the levee today - moderate pace, mostly 20-24 mph, with the humidity so high that every time the pace slacked off a bit my glasses would start to fog up and drops of sweat would drip down onto the inside of the lens. Somehow my body likes this kind of stuff, though, and my legs felt good. I even got a few drops of rain on the way to work and it's raining here and there in the city right now. The grass, starved for water for months, is now growing at a phenomenal rate and everything suddenly looks very green thanks to the steady and consistent rainfall we've been seeing the last few days. The drought is most definitely over.Steve M posted links to some excellent Time Trial from last weekend's Tour de La. The ones from the Road Race are particularly nice, especially considering that he took them all from the wheel truck behind the Cat. 1,2,3 race. Nice roads, eh? There's also a great sequence of the Cat. 1,2,3 Criterium sprint in there at the end.
The Daughter is still sick and I think she may have atypical Mumps. After a visit to the ER last week where they essentially brushed her off without even blood work she finally saw a doctor this morning where her extremely elevated wbc level got their attention resulting in an injection of Cipro and a script for more with instructions to come back on Friday. Apparently they did a monospot and it was negative, but then those are not all that accurate anyway as I recall so I wouldn't be ruling out mono since she has a sore throat, fever and swollen "glands." Not sure if we're talking salivary or lymph, though. Anyway I'm keeping in close touch and will be up there on Saturday at any rate.
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